When Laura and I announced to the two families that we wanted to get married, Mom and Mary burst into tears and hugged each other. We had convened ano...ther family picnic, and everyone was there. Mom and Dad. Mary and Roger's Dad. Roger and his fiance, Susan. Laura and me.I think Mom said it best. "Mary, I've always thought of you as a sister. I know you always have thought of Bill as your own son," and she winked at Mary, "just as I have considered Roger and Laura to be my own k**s. Finally, our. “Third, I must tell you about my ‘extracurricular’ activities. I do have a job, but it is not the usual kind of thing mentioned in public to strangers. I work as the Madam of the most successful bordello in this city. In only the few years since your father died in that stupid industrial accident, I have gone from a common streetwalker to one of the most successful business women in this city.“My seed money was the judgment the court handed down and the insurance policy. It has always been my. Lyndsy didn’t cook, she ordered and Luci didn’t cook, she burned. Mimi was in shock. ‘I can’t believe this.’ she breathed looking at the living room. She had a couch and love seat, she recognized it was Lyndsy’s older but expensive ‘last year’s furniture’, the matching coffee table, a TV, a few plants, and a small entertainment center. ‘I got you another Aloe Vera plant,’ Luci handed her the small plant. ‘I know it’s not like your mom’s but-‘ ‘It’s perfect.’ Mimi was holding back her tears. . In those days, fat people and women of color never showed up in ads on TV or movies. Judy covered up her cleavage, and I did too, on purpose, because we were weird enough without drawing more attention to ourselves. Judy was a young woman who could ride the Los Angeles bus system with semen on her face without getting a second look. I was the girl who noticed, and who squeezed my legs together from the erotic intensity of it.!The thing that Judy could do that Rachel couldn't or nobody else I.